Adjectives Describing Personality Traits

Dr. Ravi P. Reddy (India)
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  1. abstemious
    marked by temperance in indulgence
  2. abstinent
    self-restraining
  3. acerbic
    sour or bitter in taste
  4. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  5. altruist
    someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being
  6. arbiter
    someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
  7. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  8. boisterous
    marked by exuberance and high spirits
  9. charlatan
    a flamboyant deceiver
  10. chauvinist
    a person with a prejudiced belief in his own superiority
  11. cherubic
    having a sweet nature befitting an angel
  12. churlish
    having a bad disposition; surly
  13. cognizant
    having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization
  14. coltish
    given to merry frolicking
  15. connoisseur
    an expert able to appreciate a field
  16. contentious
    showing an inclination to disagree
  17. contumacious
    willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
  18. crass
    so unrefined as to be offensive or insensitive
  19. craven
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  20. cynic
    someone who is critical of the motives of others
  21. disinterested
    unaffected by concern for one's own welfare
  22. dissolute
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  23. equipoise
    equality of distribution
  24. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  25. extrovert
    a person directed toward others as opposed to the self
  26. fawning
    attempting to win favor by flattery
  27. flustered
    thrown into a state of agitated confusion
  28. froward
    habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition
  29. frugal
    avoiding waste
  30. genial
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  31. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  32. hedonistic
    devoted to pleasure
  33. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  34. indomitable
    impossible to subdue
  35. indulgent
    given to yielding to the wishes of someone
  36. inept
    generally incompetent and ineffectual
  37. inscrutable
    difficult or impossible to understand
  38. insolvent
    unable to meet or discharge financial obligations
  39. intransigent
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
  40. intrepid
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  41. introvert
    a person who tends to shrink from social contacts
  42. laconic
    brief and to the point
  43. lax
    without rigor or strictness
  44. lethargic
    deficient in alertness or activity
  45. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  46. loutish
    ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
  47. maverick
    someone who exhibits independence in thought and action
  48. mendicant
    a pauper who lives by begging
  49. misogynist
    a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular
  50. natty
    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
  51. neophyte
    a participant with no experience with an activity
  52. obsequious
    attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  53. obstreperous
    noisily and stubbornly defiant
  54. obtuse
    of an angle, between 90 and 180 degrees
  55. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  56. phlegmatic
    showing little emotion
  57. pragmatist
    an adherent of a theory of observable practical consequences
  58. precocious
    characterized by exceptionally early development
  59. prodigy
    an unusually gifted or intelligent person
  60. pundit
    an expert who publicly gives opinions via mass media
  61. quack
    the sound made by a duck
  62. raffish
    marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputability
  63. rapacious
    living by preying on other animals
  64. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  65. redoubtable
    inspiring fear
  66. refractory
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  67. reprobate
    a person without moral scruples
  68. reticent
    reluctant to draw attention to yourself
  69. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  70. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  71. savant
    a learned person
  72. spendthrift
    someone who spends money freely or wastefully
  73. splenetic
    of or relating to the spleen
  74. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  75. tractable
    easily managed
  76. untoward
    not in keeping with accepted standards of what is proper
  77. visionary
    a person with unusual powers of foresight
Created on Thu Feb 14 12:34:48 EST 2013 (updated Fri Feb 15 00:33:01 EST 2013)

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